Roberto
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, feminine equivalent Roberta, equivalent to English Robert
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/roβeɾto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roberto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 159(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 204
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 209
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #167 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 492 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159 (inferred from the name graph)
373,697 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, feminine equivalent Roberta, equivalent to English Robert
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roberto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #16 | 373,697 | 1 in 567 | 437K | Roberto | 263 |
| IT Italy | #18 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 204 | 348 | Roberto | 273 |
| AR Argentina | #29 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | 1.6K | Roberto | 182 |
| PH Philippines | #77 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 384 | — | Roberto | 133 |
| US United States | #467 | 172,377 | 1 in 1.9K | 172K | Roberto | 492 |
| PE Peru | #50 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 320 | — | Roberto | 142 |
| SV El Salvador | #30 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 209 | — | Roberto | 110 |
| PY Paraguay | #536 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | — | Roberto | 63 |
373,697 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Roberto is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Di origine germanica: hrod 'gloria' + beraht 'splendido, illustre'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Spanish, Germanic Hruotberht: hruot 'fama' + berht 'brillo' ('el que brilla por su fama').
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Swedish, Roberto är en spansk, portugisisk och italiensk variant av → Robert.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, forma italiana de Robertus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Forme italienne/espagnole de Robert.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roberto Eduardo Violab. 1924ARmilitary officer, dictator and de facto president of Argentina
- Roberto Faenzab. 1943ITItalian film director and screenwriter (born 1943)
- Roberto Benignib. 1952ITItalian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director (born 1952)
- Roberto Baggiob. 1967ITItalian association football player (born 1967)
- Mauricio Pochettinob. 1972ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and coach
- Roberto Martínezb. 1973ESSpanish association football coach
- Diego Godínb. 1986UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player (born 1986)
- Edinson Cavanib. 1987UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
- Roberto Firminob. 1991BRBrazilian association football player
- Kieffer Mooreb. 1992GBnot in their usual nameWelsh-English association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 118 sources across 59 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 437K | #92 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 374K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 372K | #72 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 172K | #324 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #72 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 519 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 415 | #324 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 348 | #85 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 127 | #664 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roberto mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, feminine equivalent Roberta, equivalent to English Robert Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Roberto?
- In the etymology graph, Robert, Robin and Bobby are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Roberto have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 374 thousand people named Roberto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roberto.
- How common is the name Roberto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 373,697 people named Roberto in 2022, about 1 in 567 residents.
- How common is Roberto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Roberto is the 16th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- Is Roberto a male or female name?
- Roberto is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Roberto?
- A machine transcription gives /roβeɾto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What do you want to know about Roberto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/robertoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roberto” — the 16th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.